Android 11 Screen Recording

Android 11 is rolling out to phones world wide and I wanted to highlight one of my favorite new features, Screen Recording!   Now I heard rumors this was added in Android 11, thus I went hunting for it when my phone received the update.  But alas, I couldn't find it anywhere!  So I'm going to cover  how to find it if it doesn't appear on your phone, as well as how to use it.

How to add Screen Recording to the Android 11 quick settings menu

1. Pull down the quick settings menu and select the edit pencil option
   
   
   
   
   
2. In edit mode of the Android Quick Setting Menu you should find the "Screen Record" option.  Simply drag it up to the list of options that should appear.
   
   
   

 

 How to use the Android 11 Screen Recording Feature

Once added to the quick settings menu (see above) screen recording can be activated just about anywhere.  When you select the screen record option you're given a few options before recording can begin.

• Record Audio
• Gives you the option to record you call phones Microphone, Device Audio, or both.
• Show touches on screen
• Will display a dot on the video recording when and where you touched the screen.  A great feature for Android how to videos!

Clicking the start button begins a countdown.  After 3 seconds the recording will start and you can begin.   

When complete, simply pull down the notifications bar and you'll find the option to stop recording.

Once stopped, a notification will appear with the screen recording.  From there you can View, Share or Delete the recording.  

Note: Unlike shooting photos and video, screen recordings are not automatically uploaded to Google Photos.

Leave me a comment about how you're using the new screen recording feature, and other cool new things you found in Android 11!

ASUS PadFone Infinity - First Look

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The new ASUS PadFone™ Infinity.  Featuring a 5-inch Android 4.1 Smartphone that can be coupled to a 10.1-inch full HD tablet display. It's designed for those looking for the abilities of both a tablet and Smartphone without having two entirely separate devices.

Overall specs of the phone places it in the high end range, with a Qualcomm® Snapdragon 600 quad-core (1.7GHz) processor with an Adreno 320 GPU.  2GB of ram, and 32-64GB of eMMc Flash storage.  With its 5-inch Smartphone display featuring a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels giving you full HD on the capacitive multi touch panel. Featuring both 3G and 4G LTE capability with up to 19hours talk time on the 2400mAh Li-Polymer battery(pushed up to 40hrs when docked with the tablet).  It has a sleek aluminum alloy unibody design with a brushed metal finish. 

The tablet side of this offers a 10.1-inch Full HD 1920x1080 pixel Capacitive Multi touch display.  An additional 19Whr battery which extends battery life up to three-times longer.  And an additional front facing camera.

Overall a great idea, and my only qualms about it is they may have pushed the phone screen size just a little too much.

Check it out at the link below:
http://www.asus.com/Tablets_Mobile/PadFone_Infinity#overview

The ASUS Transformer AiO, Blurring the Lines Between Tablet and PC

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In an attempt to blur the lines between Tablet and PC, ASUS recently announced it's dual OS Transformer AiO.   Featuring the ability to seamlessly switch between Windows 8 and Android 4.1, this machine is a bit of a beast, but has some great potential.

The machine has a somewhat unique dual processor design, with a NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 Quad-core CPU in the tablet and an additional 3rd generation Intel® Core™ processor in the desktop PC station, giving it plenty of processing power.  It's 18.4-inch screen features a resolution of 1920x1080, giving you full HD and appears to be higher than most desktop monitors of it's size.

Additional features in it's dock include 8GB of memory, a 1-2TB hard drive, Nvidia GeForce GT 730M discrete graphics, 4 USB 3.0 ports and one USB 2.0 port, DVD burner, HDMI out and a 1MP front-facing camera.

The tablet side of the ASUS Transformer AiO features the 18.4-inch 10 finger multi touch display, 32GB eMMc Flash, 802.11 a/b/g/n Bluetooth V3.0 EDR, 2 x 1.5W speakers, MicroSD card reader, and much more.

The tablet can function as a remote virtual desktop connecting wirelessly to the dock giving you the ability to run Windows 8 and associated apps.  According to ASUS the Transformer AiO has the ability to seamlessly switch between operating systems with one button push.

Overall due to its 18.4" and 5.3 lbs size, it's not the most backpack friendly tablet, but its abilities would be well suited for an office or home environment where a fixed location PC just doesn't always work.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 is here.

Courtesy of Samsung

Described as "Mindblowingly thin," by Samsungs director of product marketing Ryan Bidan, the Galaxy S4 handset takes almost every spec to the extreme.

• 5inch Super AMOLED display thats 1920x1080, pushing pixels per inch to a whopping 441.
• 1.9 GHz Quad-Core Processor / 1.6 GHz Octa-Core Processor The selection of AP will be differed by markets.
• Runs Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, the most up-to-date version of Android you can get right now.
• Ultra sensitive screen that lets you navigate via long fingernails or even gloves.  
• Measures 136.5mm long by 70.6mm wide and weighs only 130 grams.
• It's overall build is a durable plastic, which was selected for several reasons according to Samsung.  Unlike glass the plastic does not smash, its also cheaper and easier to manufacture than aluminum.
• 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash that records 1080p HD video.  
• 2-Megapixel front view camera for high quality video chat.
• 2,600 mAh battery
• 64GB of internal storage with support of another 64GB via the micro SD card slot
• 2.5G (GSM/ GPRS/ EDGE): 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz
  3G (HSPA＋ 42Mbps): 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 MHz
  4G (LTE Cat 3 100/50Mbps) : up to 6 different band sets(Dependent on market)
• Wifi a/b/g/n/ac, and IR LED(remote control functionality)